Survey predicts Smotrich will fail to return to Knesset unless party merges with Otzma Yehudit, now polling at 8-9 seats, in blow to Netanyahu bid to ride right back to premiership

'Bezalel, I love you': Cajoled by Netanyahu, Otzma Yehudit leader softens tone in bid for merger deal a day after Religious Zionism primaries

Current Knesset members grab the four realistic spots behind Smotrich, who is reportedly negotiating to unify with rebel former Yamina MK Amichai Chikli

Opposition leader calls on Religious Zionism's Bezalel Smotrich and Otzma Yehudit's Itamar Ben Gvir to end dispute and form alliance to ensure 'strong, stable' national government

Candidates vying for spots behind party chief Bezalel Smotrich, who is pushing to soften faction's hardline image and snag Yamina voters, though Otzma merger may upend list anyway

Rabbi Amichai Eliyahu is grandson of Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu, a former chief Sephardic rabbi of Israel; Pollard turns down chance to enter politics: 'I've suffered enough'

Far-right MK meeting military, religious figures and influential women in bid to build a new political roster after saying he would run separately in November elections

Political correspondent Carrie Keller-Lynn on MK Itamar Ben Gvir's call for transferring the disloyal; news editor Amy Spiro goes deep on the heroine of 1975's Savoy Hotel attack

Far-right MK adds he'd like to banish lawmakers he deems disloyal to state, while simultaneously saying he supports freedom of speech

Given favorable polls and friction with Religious Zionism, Otzma Yehudit leader claims his hand has been forced, but there's still a month to go before lists are finalized